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Stinging eyes, an unrelenting cough and chronic lung disease have taken their toll on Bhajan Lal in the Indian City of new Delhi. Bhajan Lal is an auto rickshaw driver navigating the Indian capitals chaotic roads and poisonous air. Over the past 30 years, Lal carted passengers in New Delhi, to work every day through the winter months. This is ...

Solan Kolli, an Ethiopian journalist on Tuesday won the Rory Peck prize for his coverage of the Tigray region. He won in the news category for a report commissioned by Agence France-Presse on massacres of civilians. Upon granting the award, the judges noted that the conflict had been underreported. They added that Kolli’s work contextualized and addressed the political realities ...

The Kenya Bureau of Standard (KEBS) has moved in to further enforce regulations governing the importation of used cars. The body did this while cautioning against the purchase of cars older than the allowed eight years since its manufacturing. The government agency released a notice on Tuesday, November 9 through which it announced the new directive. It stated that they ...

One of the busiest airports in Spain, Palma de Mallorca has had passengers disappear which resulted in a forced closure for nearly four hours. Authorities say the forced closure happened after passengers ran off the plane when it made an emergency landing at the airport. The aircraft, on a flight between Morocco and Turkey, had to be diverted to the ...

It was the worst time of my life as a headteacher. I walked to school and found someone had printed, in large letters, on the gate that I was sleeping with students. Of all the smearing-campaigns I had faced in my time at the school, this was the worst. It is hard to argue your case against child molestation especially ...